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Matthew S Reynolds

Matt Reynolds received S.B., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT, and was a Motorola Fellow at the MIT Media Lab from 1997-2002. Matt co-founded the RFID systems firm ThingMagic Inc. in 2000 and served as Chief Technology Officer from 2002-2007. He returned to academia as a Senior Research Scientist at Georgia Tech prior to joining the Duke faculty as an Assistant Professor in January 2008. Matt is also co-founder of the energy conservation firm uSenso Inc, acquired by Belkin Inc. in 2010, and has 9 issued and over 20 pending patents.

Contact Information:
Education:
PhDMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)2003
M.Eng.Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)1999
SBMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)1998
Research Interests:

Prof. Reynolds' research interests include RFID and its applications to robotics and human-computer interaction, ultra-low power sensing and computation, parasitic power, and smart materials, surfaces, and spaces.

Specialties:

Sensing and Sensor Systems
Computer Engineering
Robotics
Electronic Devices
Smart Technology

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions:

  • Celebration of Engineering and Technology Innovation (CETI) Award, FIATECH, May, 2011
  • Best Paper / Best of CHI Nominee, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010), 2010
  • Best Paper Award, ACM Ubicomp 2010, 2010
  • Best Paper Award, International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2008
  • Best Paper Nominee, IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computing, 2008
  • Best Paper and Best Presentation Awards, ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 2007
  • Motorola Fellow, MIT Media Lab, 1999-2002
  • First place, AUVSI International Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Competition, 1998, 1999

Courses Taught:
  • ECE 184 - INTRO TO DIG COMM SYS (Synopsis)

Representative Publications: (More Publications)
  1. J. Froehlich, E. Larson, S. Gupta, G. Cohn, M. Reynolds, and S. Patel, Disaggregated End-Use Energy Sensing for the Smart Grid, IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol 10 no. 1 (2011), pp. 28-39
  2. J. Yun, S. Patel, M. Reynolds, and G. Abowd, Design and Performance of an Optimal Inertial Power Harvester for Human-powered Devices, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol 10 no. 5 (2011), pp. 669-683
  3. Deyle, Travis and Nguyen, Hai and Reynolds, Matthew S. and Kemp, Charles C., RFID-Guided Robots for Pervasive Automation, IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol 9 no. 2 (2010), pp. 37--45 [doi]
  4. Deyle, Travis and Kemp, Charles C. and Reynolds, Matthew S., Probabilistic UHF RFID tag pose estimation with multiple antennas and a multipath RF propagation model (2008), pp. 1379--1384 [abs]
  5. Deyle, Travis and Anderson, Cressel and Kemp, Charles C. and Reynolds, Matthew S., A foveated passive UHF RFID system for mobile manipulation (2008), pp. 3711--3716 [abs]